Don Jackson (ice hockey player)

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United StatesUnited States  Don Jackson Ice hockey player
Date of birth 2nd September 1956
place of birth Minneapolis , Minnesota , USA
size 191 cm
Weight 95 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1976 , 3rd round, 39th position
Minnesota North Stars
WHA Amateur Draft 1976 , 8th lap, 91st position
Calgary Cowboys
Career stations
1974-1988 University of Notre Dame
1978-1981 Minnesota North Stars
1981-1986 Edmonton Oilers
1986-1987 New York Rangers
United StatesUnited States  Don Jackson
Don Jackson
Coaching stations
1988-1991 Knoxville Cherokees
1991-1994 Québec Nordiques (Ass.)
1994-1995 Cincinnati Cyclones
1995-1996 Wichita Thunder
1996-1997 Kansas City Blades
1997-2000 Pittsburgh Penguins (Ass.)
2000-2001 Chicago Blackhawks (Ass.)
2001-2005 Ottawa Senators (Ass.)
2005 Eisbären Berlin (Ass.)
2005-2007 DEG Metro Stars
2007-2013 Polar bears Berlin
2013-2014 EC Red Bull Salzburg
since 2014 EHC Red Bull Munich

Donald Clinton Jackson (born September 2, 1956 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) is an American ice hockey coach and former National Hockey League player. Since May 2014 he has been the head coach of EHC Red Bull Munich . With eight German championships he is the most successful head coach in DEL history, the only coach in German ice hockey history who has managed the title hat trick with two different clubs, the only coach who has reached the final of the Champions Hockey League with a German team , became DEL Trainer of the Year 2019 and holds several records in the DEL. He also won the German Ice Hockey Cup twice and finished the main round seven times as first in the table.

Career in North America

Jackson began his playing career in the NCAA with the team of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish .

He was later committed as a young talent by the NHL team Minnesota North Stars in the 1976 NHL Amateur Draft in the third round at position 39, but only made eight appearances in the following season. His final breakthrough came in the early 1980s with the Edmonton Oilers . For this team he played between 1982 and 1986 and won the Stanley Cup twice on the side of "The Great One" Wayne Gretzky . He ended his active career with the New York Rangers . He scored 77 scorer points in his total of 368 NHL appearances as a defender .

Then he was mostly active as an assistant coach in various NHL teams, the longest from 2001 to 2005 with the Ottawa Senators . At the Pittsburgh Penguins he coached the Czech ice hockey legend Jaromír Jágr , the most successful European player in NHL history.

Coaching career in German-speaking countries

Beginning with the Eisbären Berlin

The 2004/2005 NHL season was completely canceled due to the lockout and Jackson switched to the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) during the season . There he trained as an assistant coach at the main round runner-up and later champion Eisbären Berlin, in particular the defensive players. In Berlin he also met his former companion Pierre Pagé - the two of them had trained together for the Québec Nordiques NHL team in the 1990s .

Don Jackson (center) as coach of EC Red Bull Salzburg

DEG Metro Stars

After the successful time in Berlin, Jackson switched to the eight-time German champions from Düsseldorf, the DEG Metro Stars , in the 2005/06 season . He led them from third place in the main round to the final of the DEL play-offs , in which they were defeated by the defending champion - and Don Jackson's former employer - Eisbären Berlin. In addition to the runner-up, Jackson's team reached the final of the German Ice Hockey Cup and beat Adler Mannheim there . After this greatest success of the Metro Stars since the 1996 championship , Jackson also looked after the Metro Stars in the 2006/2007 season , finished second after the main round and was eliminated in the subsequent playoffs in the semi-finals.

Return to the polar bears Berlin

For the 2007/08 season he returned to the polar bears as head coach and signed a two-year contract there. In the 2007/2008 DEL season, he won both the cup and the championship title with the Eisbären Berlin. In 2009 , 2011 , 2012 and 2013 he was again German champion with the Eisbären Berlin after the Eisbären had finished the main round in 2008 as second, in 2009 as first, 2011 as third, 2012 as first and 2013 as fourth. In 2009/10 he was able to set a DEL record with 123 points, but retired as the reigning defending champion after five games in the best-of-five series in the quarter-finals against the Augsburg Panthers . In 2010 he also won the European Trophy by winning the HV71 Jönköping in the final .

One year at EC Red Bull Salzburg

In the 2013/2014 season he worked as a coach at EC Red Bull Salzburg , finished the main round in 2013/14 as third in the table, won the placement round and led the team to the playoff final of the Austrian Ice Hockey League (EBEL), the EC in five games of the best-of-five series against HC Bozen , a foreign member of the league, lost. Jackson was Austrian champion , however , as Salzburg became the best-placed Austrian team.

EHC Red Bull Munich

In May 2014 he moved within Red Bull GmbH to the Munich DEL club EHC Red Bull Munich and reached second place after the main round, but was already eliminated in the quarter-finals of the best-of-seven series against Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg with 0: 4 wins out. In the 2015/16 season , the EHC became German champions under Jackson's leadership and repeated the triumph in 2017 and 2018 after the EHC had finished the main round as first in the table.

In the following season , the EHC reached the final of the Champions Hockey League under Jackson's leadership, which was lost 3-1 to the Frölunda Indians . The Red Bulls finished second in the 2018/19 DEL main round like 2014/15 and Jackson was named DEL Trainer of the Year for the first time . In the subsequent playoffs, the Munich team lost the final series against Adler Mannheim , while Jackson surpassed former national coach Hans Zach in the first final game with his 839th DEL game as coach and thus holds the DEL record. The main round of the following season , Munich again finished first in the table.

Others

As head coach in the DEL, Jackson has a win rate of 65.2 percent and has won 550 of his 843 games so far (as of August 2019). He is considered a coach who is particularly characterized by his leadership and tactical analysis, who can improve his players individually. Deron Quint said of him: “Don Jackson is the best coach I've ever worked under. He always makes you feel good, he takes you seriously as a person, not just as a professional. "

Quote

“Ice hockey is an art and a science. It's a creative game and there isn't one perfect answer to everything. "

- Don Jackson :

Trivia

Jackson has often attracted attention for unconventional methods to lead his team to success. On April 9, 2006, his DEG was 2: 3 against Kölner Haie in the fifth and decisive semi-final eight minutes before the end at Brehmstrasse , when his team was awarded a double majority. Jackson took his goalkeeper Andrei Trefilow out of the gate in favor of a sixth outfield player at this early stage , his team took advantage of this six versus three situation and scored the equalizer. His team finally won 5-3 and advanced to the final. The then manager of DEG, Lance Nethery , expressed his admiration for this courageous behavior in a rustic way: “Don has big balls” . In the second final game, the last game on Brehmstrasse, the Düsseldorf fans paid homage with a banner: “Only one person has eggs. Don Jackson and nobody else. "

Achievements and Awards

Player:

Trainer:

Web links

Commons : Don Jackson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ice Hockey News Special Issue 2017/18, page 24
  2. ^ Ice hockey: Eisbären Berlin German champions for the first time. April 19, 2005, accessed on February 16, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Polar bears remain masters. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
  4. ^ WORLD: DEL: Mannheim in the final against Nuremberg . April 7, 2007 ( welt.de [accessed February 16, 2019]).
  5. ↑ WORLD: DEL final: The Eisbären Berlin are German champions . April 20, 2008 ( welt.de [accessed February 16, 2019]).
  6. ↑ RP ONLINE: Photos: DEL final 08/09: DEG - Berlin, game 4. Accessed on February 16, 2019 .
  7. ^ WORLD: Ice hockey: Eisbären Berlin German champion for the fifth time . April 19, 2011 ( welt.de [accessed February 16, 2019]).
  8. ↑ WORLD: Ice hockey: Eisbären Berlin are the new DEL record champions . April 24, 2012 ( welt.de [accessed February 16, 2019]).
  9. ^ Berliner Morgenpost- Berlin: Eisbären German champion for the seventh time. April 21, 2013, accessed on February 16, 2019 (German).
  10. ↑ Ice Hockey News Special Issue 17/18, pages 198–199
  11. ↑ End of the quarter-finals: polar bears lose game five against Augsburg. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Eisbären Berlin win European Trophy. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
  13. ^ Bitter end: EHC Munich fails in the quarterfinals - Abendzeitung Munich . ( Abendzeitung-muenchen.de [accessed on November 3, 2018]).
  14. ↑ sportschau.de: DEL playoffs, game four. April 22, 2016, accessed October 1, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Master! Red Bull Munich defends DEL title. In: sportbild.bild.de. April 17, 2017. Retrieved December 21, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Bernd Schwickerath: Championship title for EHC Munich: FC Bayern on the ice . In: Spiegel Online . April 27, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 16, 2019]).
  17. ↑ Ice hockey: Red Bull Munich loses in the final of the Champions Hockey League. In: Spiegel Online . February 5, 2019, accessed March 20, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Red Bulls goalie Danny aus den Birken received two honors. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
  19. ↑ sid / jr: Ice hockey: Adler Mannheim end Munich's championship series. In: welt.de . April 26, 2019. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
  20. ↑ EHC Munich wins the first thriller against Mannheim. In: sueddeutsche.de . April 18, 2019, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Ice Hockey News special edition 2019/20, page 42
  22. ↑ Ice Hockey News Special Issue 2018/19, page 32
  23. ↑ Don Jackson - the master maker of ice hockey. Retrieved December 29, 2018 .
  24. ↑ a b The official book of the German Ice Hockey League: 20 years DEL, page 222
  25. ↑ Ex-Coach Don: Return as front runner. In: express.de. December 20, 2007, accessed March 20, 2019 .
Squad EHC München in the season 2020/21
personal data
SURNAME Jackson, Don
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jackson, Donald Clinton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis , Minnesota